Aflac Workplaces Report Shows Employers Focusing on Controlling Costs - Posted May 29, 2014
Aflac released its annual Aflac Workplaces Report and from the looks of it, it isn't pretty. The study looked at responses from 5,209 employees and 1,856 business decision makers.
Almost one-third of businesses eliminated or delayed raises and 22 percent of businesses have eliminated... [MediaJobsDaily]

Open Data: The Key To $3 Trillion In Economic Value - Posted November 4, 2013
There's money in that open data. A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute finds that machine-readable information that's made available to others has the potential to generate significant economic value: $3 trillion annually in seven domains, to be exact.
The report, entitled Open Data: Unlocki... [AllTwitter]

What AI Can Do for Mental Health Care - Posted June 26, 2013
David D. Luxton recently wrote a piece for Armed with Science regarding the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ... [semanticweb.com]

Session Spotlight: A Host of Expert Panels at SemTechBiz SF - Posted May 9, 2013
Next month's Semantic Technology and Business Conference in San Francisco will include a number of panels featuring experts from virtually every facet of the evolving world of semantic web technologies. Experts from major companies and successful start... [AllTwitter]

Session Spotlight: A Host of Expert Panels at SemTechBiz SF - Posted May 9, 2013
Next month's Semantic Technology and Business Conference in San Francisco will include a number of panels featuring experts from virtually every facet of the evolving world of semantic web technologies. Experts from major companies and successful start... [semanticweb.com]

A Chat With Gartner About Semantic Tech Earning A Spot As Top Tech Trend In 2013 - Posted March 20, 2013
Earlier this month Gartner named semantic technologies to its top ten trends list (see our story here). Recently, we caught up with Gartner vp and distinguished analyst Debra Logan, the lead author on the semantic technologies section of the Top 10 Technology Trends Impacting Information Infrastructure, 2013, to learn more about... [AllTwitter]

A Chat With Gartner About Semantic Tech Earning A Spot As Top Tech Trend In 2013 - Posted March 20, 2013
Earlier this month Gartner named semantic technologies to its top ten trends list (see our story here). Recently, we caught up with Gartner vp and distinguished analyst Debra Logan, the lead author on the semantic technologies section of the Top 10 Technology Trends Impacting Information Infrastructure, 2013, to learn more about... [semanticweb.com]

Clinical Studies And The Road To Linked Data - Posted February 11, 2013
Clinical studies aren't what they used to be. In the past, the process was one-off: You conducted a study, gathered a lot of data, analyzed it, wrote a report, and submitted it to the authorities. But, says long-time Linked Data advocate Kerstin Forsberg, an information architect at AstraZeneca, that's all changed... [AllTwitter]

Clinical Studies And The Road To Linked Data - Posted February 11, 2013
Clinical studies aren't what they used to be. In the past, the process was one-off: You conducted a study, gathered a lot of data, analyzed it, wrote a report, and submitted it to the authorities. But, says long-time Linked Data advocate Kerstin Forsberg, an information architect at AstraZeneca, that's all changed... [semanticweb.com]

Making Captured Data Meaningful In the Age of Mobile, Participatory Health - Posted October 18, 2012
There's a new term in town: Participatory mHealth. As defined by Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science at CornellNYC Tech and co-founder of Open mHealth, it "is taking what was previously unmeasured and uncaptured behavior - [things] that were previously ephemeral -- and turn that int... [AllTwitter]

Making Captured Data Meaningful In the Age of Mobile, Participatory Health - Posted October 18, 2012
There's a new term in town: Participatory mHealth. As defined by Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science at CornellNYC Tech and co-founder of Open mHealth, it "is taking what was previously unmeasured and uncaptured behavior - [things] that were previously ephemeral -- and turn that int... [semanticweb.com]

The Social Media Strategy Cheat Sheet [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted October 4, 2012
Many businesses are already on social media, but they're tweeting without a roadmap. Developing a strategy for all of your tweets, status update, customer service, monitoring efforts and more can be time-consuming and expensive - if you don't have the resources to create y... [AllTwitter]

IBM's Watson Gets to Work - Posted August 7, 2012
IBM reports that the company is putting Watson to work: "Watson's cognitive capabilities were designed to take on the real-world challenges of Big Data across a range of industries. From the outset, the aim was to put ... [semanticweb.com]

A Better Antibiotic Through Semantic Interoperability - Posted July 18, 2012
Grace Rattue reports that, "Researchers in Europe have developed a new system which could help in the war on resistance to antibiotics" using ICT technology and a semantic interoperability framework. Rattue explains, "According to the World Health Org... [semanticweb.com]

1/3 Of Consumers Seek Health Advice On Facebook - Posted April 18, 2012
While 80 percent of health-care organizations have social media initiatives, about one third of consumers turn to Facebook for health information.
That's based on a survey of 1,060 adults and 124 ... [AllFacebook]

Connecting Researchers to Unpublished Research - Posted February 17, 2012
A new Threaded Publications ontology seeks to make unpublished research more easily searchable. The article states, "Unpublished research is a serious problem for evidence-based decision making in ... [semanticweb.com]

The Future World Is A Semantic Tech World - Posted February 13, 2012
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A new report from the Institute for Global Futures, Global Futures Forecast 2012, lays out the top trends that it believes will shape the coming year. It's looking ahead to a future that it says may be characterized by complex trends,... [AllTwitter]

The Future World Is A Semantic Tech World - Posted February 13, 2012
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A new report from the Institute for Global Futures, Global Futures Forecast 2012, lays out the top trends that it believes will shape the coming year. It's looking ahead to a future that it says may be characterized by complex trends,... [semanticweb.com]

New Paper on Semantics and Drug Discovery Research - Posted January 4, 2012
A new paper has been published entitled "Systems Chemical Biology and the Semantic Web: What They Mean for the Future of Drug Discovery Research." The paper was written by David Wild, Ying Ding, Amit Sheth, Lee Harland, Eric Gifford, and Michael Lajiness. It c... [semanticweb.com]

Creating Interoperability of Biomedical Data Sources - Posted January 3, 2012
Researchers from the University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, have published a new paper entitled Interoperability Driven Integration of Biomedical Data Sources. The paper, published in Studies in Health Technology and ... [semanticweb.com]

Creating Interoperability of Biomedical Data Sources - Posted January 3, 2012
Researchers from the University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, have published a new paper entitled Interoperability Driven Integration of Biomedical Data Sources. The paper, published in Studies in Health Technology and ... [AllTwitter]

Semantic Data Integration For Free With IO Informatics' Knowledge Explorer Personal Edition - Posted December 12, 2011
Bioinformatics software provider IO Informatics recently released its free Knowledge Explorer Personal Edition. Version 3.6 of the Personal Edition can handle most of what Knowledge Explorer Professional 3.6, launched in October, can, but it does all its work in memory without direct connectivity to a back-end database.
"In part... [semanticweb.com]

How Healthline is Using Semantic Technology to Promote Health - Posted December 5, 2011
West Shell, CEO of Healthline is turning to the semantic web to compete with internet health giants like WebMD. Wade Roush reports, "Shell says 170 million Americans turn to the Internet every month... [semanticweb.com]

Swarmology Debuts New Website - Posted November 16, 2011
San Diego startup Swarmology has stepped out of stealth mode with the debut of its website and the disclosure of $1.2 million in initial funding. According to the article, "The company, f... [AllTwitter]

Swarmology Debuts New Website - Posted November 16, 2011
San Diego startup Swarmology has stepped out of stealth mode with the debut of its website and the disclosure of $1.2 million in initial funding. According to the article, "The company, f... [semanticweb.com]

Get More Robust Access Control, Courtesy of Semantic Technology - Posted November 9, 2011
At JPMorgan Chase, application security and semantic web technology are teaming up. David C. Laurance, who works in the former area at the financial services giant, is pursuing an initiative with semantic technology vendor Clark & Parsia, and its CTO Evren Sirin, that's focused on authorization policy management. The primary goal... [semanticweb.com]

Video: OpenTox Toxicology Framework - Posted September 8, 2011
This video lecture discusses the development of OpenTox, an open source predictive toxicology framework. The description states, "A new paradigm of 21st century human-orient... [semanticweb.com]

Why Ontologies are Needed in Health Care Applications - Posted August 30, 2011
Joel Amoussou addressed the question recently of why ontologies are needed in health care applications. Amoussou writes, "at the practical level, ontologies can help us verify the soundness of statements in messages based on our conceptualization... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Web Jobs: Stanford & Pfizer - Posted June 20, 2011
Stanford University is looking for a Web UI and Backend Server Developer in Palo Alto, CA: "Stanford University is the home for a national center to apply advances in computing to improve the effectiveness of biomedical ... [semanticweb.com]

A New Ontology for Health Care - Posted March 22, 2011
A recent article discusses the need for patient-centered health care around the globe and how semantic technologies are helping that goal become a reality. According to the article, "a growing desire to build on the patient's strength... [semanticweb.com]

Ten Trends to Watch in Health Care and Life Sciences - Posted March 3, 2011
John Halamka, a prominent CIO in the health care field has posted his "top ten trends to watch as we increasingly free data from transactional systems." According to the article, "In a world filled with highly scalable web s... [AllTwitter]

Ten Trends to Watch in Health Care and Life Sciences - Posted March 3, 2011
John Halamka, a prominent CIO in the health care field has posted his "top ten trends to watch as we increasingly free data from transactional systems." According to the article, "In a world filled with highly scalable web s... [semanticweb.com]

Semantics For The Connected World: Thingworx Goes Live - Posted February 7, 2011
Manufacturers, utilities, health care and other industrial and services organizations have an opportunity to develop applications that model and draw upon the capabilities of the increasingly connected physical world around them. Seems, after all, as if almost everything already is or soon will be connected to a s... [AllTwitter]